Sam Altman, on the left, and Elon Musk.
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A group of 12 former OpenAI employees, in support of Elon Musk’s demand against the artificial intelligence startup, requested a court’s permit on Friday to share their concerns about the transformation of the company into a profit entity.
People worked collectively in Openai between 2018 and 2024, which covers “the training years of the organization through its most recent development,” said the application. The report was presented to a district court in California by Lawrence Lessig, who represents the group.
The purpose of the application is to support Musk’s arguments in his case against Openai and his effort to maintain the AI ​​research project, which Musk co -founded in 2015 as a non -profit organization, from becoming an entity for profit.
“If Openai’s non -profit organization agreed on a change in Operai’s corporate structure that took away his control role, that would fundamentally violate his mission,” the presentations said.
Openai, led by the CEO Sam Altman, has been marketing products in recent years, especially its viral chatbot chatpt, which was launched at the end of 2022. The company is still supervised by a non -profit father Adversaries and now has its own opponent and now has its own rival.
A group led by musizcle offered to buy Openai in February for $ 97.4 billion, an offer that was quickly rejected. Last month, Openai closed a financing round of $ 40 billion directed by SoftBank with an assessment of $ 300 billion, the largest registered private technology financing.
Openai’s hybrid structure includes a limited company of limited profit finals created in 2019. The original profit non -profit organization is the controlling shareholder and would occur as an independent entity if the restructuring company. Openai risk sponsors have received convertible notes that would become equity.
On the brief Friday, Lessig wrote that, in addition to abandoning its original mission, conversion to a profit company “would violate employees’ confidence, donors and other interested parties who joined and supported the organization” based on their commitments.
The former attendees appointed in the report are Steven Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Chowdhury, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Kokotajlo, Gretchen Krueger, Todor Markov, Richard Ngo, Girish Sastry, William Saunders, Carrol Wainwright and Jeffrey Wu. Some have talked about their experiences in Operai in the past.
The presentation said that the appointed parties also “have a significant interest in this litigation, since it addresses fundamental questions about the mission and organizational structure of OpenAi that helped to shape during their employment.”
“Our Board has been very clear: our non -profit organization does not go anywhere and our mission will continue to be the same,” said an OpenAi spokesman for CNBC. “We are turning our existing -profit arm into a public benefit corporation, the same structure as other Laboratories of AI such as Anthrope, where some of these former employees now work, and XAI.”
The case between Musk and Openai has taken numerous shifts from the Tesla The CEO began a litigation at the beginning of last year, claiming that the company abandoned its founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity widely.” Last month, a Federal District Court blocked Musk’s attempt to stop Openai’s transition to a profit company.
Earlier this week, Operai presented a contrademand against Musk, claiming that the richest person in the world has “proved all the tools available to damage” the company. That demand is asking for punitive damage to Musk’s actions and a court order to prevent interfering even more in its operations.
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